Census of solo LuxR genes in prokaryotic genomes

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Hudaiberdiev, Sanjarbek ^a   Choudhary, Kumari S ^a   Vera Alvarez, Roberto ^b   Gelencsér, Zsolt ^b   Ligeti, Balázs ^b   Lamba, Doriano ^c   Pongor, Sándor ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

LuxR; N acyl homoserine lactone; Orphan; Quorum sensing; Solo

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LUXI PROTEIN, BACTERIA; LUXR AUTOINDUCER BINDING PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; QUORUM SENSING; BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84965185270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2015.00020     Document Type: Article

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